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FF13 Will Push PS3 to 100 Percent

Square Enix's Yoshinori Kitase states that the new Final Fantasy will use all of the PS3's power.

In what seems like either an incorrect translation or an incredibly bold statement, Square Enix producer Yoshinori Kitase has been quoted in the latest edition of the Japanese videogaming magazine Dengeki PlayStation 3 as saying that the final version of Final Fantasy XIII will use "nearly 100 percent" of the PlayStation 3's power.

According to Kotaku, Kitase believes that the upcoming playable demo of Final Fantasy XIII uses around 50 percent of the machine's capacity. The article goes on to point out that Japan is only currently scheduled to receive the PlayStation 3 version of the game and not the western-planned Xbox 360 version. If FF13 uses all of the PS3's power and Blu-ray storage capacity, does that mean that the Xbox 360 game could be technically inferior or span multiple discs?

He went on to say that the game will make use of all the PS3's hardware power much like Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy X made use of the PlayStation and the PlayStation 2, respectively. Kitase added that there won't be any disc swap issues due to Blu-ray and the PS3's hard drive.

Whatever the case, Yoshinori Kitase has made a pretty big claim here. Fans and haters of the current generation of hardware will no doubt use this kind of statement to pull the other guy's console apart.

Can this chap's chin-stubble really cause the PS3 to max out its processes?

Bryn says: Them's big words, Mr. Kitase. Although I have to admit that Square Enix are fully capable of creating some of the most visually stunning games out there. How exactly does FF13 push the PlayStation 3 to its capacity though?

In my experience, and speaking generally, when a developer makes a PS3 and Xbox 360 version of a game, the nod usually goes to the 360 revision, at least in terms of minor framerate hitches, tearing and the like. That's not supposed to incite a riot in the forums, it's just my observations. So I'm very curious to see if this will be the case for FF13 when it launches on both platforms. Let the fanboi wars commence.